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My father requested cremation. I must admit the service of remembrance was much less painful than a funeral with a casket and body present.
Friends, family and personal items celebrating his life was quite refreshing and a lighter burden to endure. Open caskets and such are really burdensome times for me at a friend or family members funeral. Roman Catholic funerals are probably the worst. In most cases there is no testimony of salvation and no one seems to care. Too many folks make too much out of a lifeless body that is empty and destined to decay.
For the cause of Christ
Roger
Friends, family and personal items celebrating his life was quite refreshing and a lighter burden to endure. Open caskets and such are really burdensome times for me at a friend or family members funeral. Roman Catholic funerals are probably the worst. In most cases there is no testimony of salvation and no one seems to care. Too many folks make too much out of a lifeless body that is empty and destined to decay.
For the cause of Christ
Roger
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Not hardly.....read slowly what I have said....there are no verses in context that states verbatim it is a sin to be cremated....NONE, NIL, ZERO NADA, etc....
I was asking for two sets in context and verbatim that states it is a sin and saying we will ALL WAIT AND WAIT AND WAIT because the are NONE...
I was asking for two sets in context and verbatim that states it is a sin and saying we will ALL WAIT AND WAIT AND WAIT because the are NONE...
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No ones, I very much doubt it’s a sin to cremate a body.
If a person is a Christian the earthy outer shell no longer has a purpose.
Personally I’m not too bothered whether it’s a cremation or burial for me when it’s
my turn. Funeral services are for the benefit of the living to mourn, grieve and say
goodbye. They don’t benefit the dead in any way.
5 people that I know of either directly or indirectly have died this year.
I’ve been to two funerals.
When they carry the coffin in and you see it, the reality of life, the total abruptness
of death and the need to meet the saviour in this life before you get to the next,
hits you in the stomach like a tonne of bricks. There is a finality when you see that
coffin.
This life is a life of dying and decay, the next eternal life is real life
for living. Somehow it matters not what happens to the decaying body, as
much as will you get to see them again in eternity.
If a person is a Christian the earthy outer shell no longer has a purpose.
Personally I’m not too bothered whether it’s a cremation or burial for me when it’s
my turn. Funeral services are for the benefit of the living to mourn, grieve and say
goodbye. They don’t benefit the dead in any way.
5 people that I know of either directly or indirectly have died this year.
I’ve been to two funerals.
When they carry the coffin in and you see it, the reality of life, the total abruptness
of death and the need to meet the saviour in this life before you get to the next,
hits you in the stomach like a tonne of bricks. There is a finality when you see that
coffin.
This life is a life of dying and decay, the next eternal life is real life
for living. Somehow it matters not what happens to the decaying body, as
much as will you get to see them again in eternity.
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I personally don’t agree with cremation.. there seems to be a big increase in cremations of late.. the cost being highlighted as an incentive..
I guess it is down to the individual.. I don’t afford my husband the choice.. respect his wishes and all that.. lol! I feel too strongly against it.. It will depend whom departs first, lol.
I guess it is down to the individual.. I don’t afford my husband the choice.. respect his wishes and all that.. lol! I feel too strongly against it.. It will depend whom departs first, lol.
